Biodiversity Studies

Many studies in pollination, community ecology, conservation, biogeography and agriculture overlap. Taxonomically specific studies are included under the relevant taxonomic headings (see for example Syrphidae, which contains some zoogeographical and some conservation papers). 

Melton, D.A., S.M. Cooper and A.E. Whittington. 1989. The diet of bushpigs in a sugarcane agroecosystem. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 19(1): 48-51. 

Whittington, A.E. 2008. Insecta: Diptera (flies). pp.110-121. In: Mendel, H., Ashmole, P. and Ashmole, M. Invertebrates of the Central Peaks and Peak Dale, St Helena. Final Report, April 2008. St Helena National Trust. 121 pp.

Ollerton, J., Masinde, S., Meve, U., Picker, M. and Whittington, A. 2009. Fly pollination in Ceropegia (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae): biogeographic and phylogenetic perspectives. Annals of Botany 103(9): 1501-1514. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcp072

Ali, M., Saeed, S., Sajjad A. and Whittington, A. 2011. In search of the best pollinators for canola (Brassica napus L.) production in Pakistan. Applied Entomology and Zoology 46(2): 353-361. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13355-011-0051-0

Lüscher, G., Ammari, Y., Andriets, A., Angelova, S., Arndorfer, M., Bailey, D., Balázs, K., Bogers, M., Bunce, R.G.H. Choisis, J.‐P., et al. including Whittington, A.E. 2016. Farmland biodiversity and agricultural management on 237 farms in 13 European and two African regions. Ecology 97:1625. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-1985.1

Kaiser-Bunbury, C.N., Mougal, J., Whittington, A.E., Valentin, T., Gabriel, R., Olesen, J.M. and Blüthgen, N. 2017. Ecosystem restoration strengthens pollination network resilience and function. Nature Letters 542: 223-227. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature21071

Ollerton, J., Dötterl, S., Ghorpadé, K., Heiduk, A., Liede-Schumann, S., Masinde, S., Meve, U., Peter, C.I., Prieto-Benítez, S., Punekar, S. and Thulin, M., Whittington, A. 2017. Diversity of Diptera families that pollinate Ceropegia (Apocynaceae) trap flowers: an update in light of new data and phylogenetic analyses. Flora, 234, pp.233-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2017.07.013